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Hit To Kill

The New Battle Over Shielding America From Missile Attach

By: Bradley Graham

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Paperback | 1 November 2003 | Edition Number 1

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The definitive account of the precipitous and politically charged revival of national missile defense --now updated to address post-9/11 developments. Even as America faces a world of difficult-to-detect, low-tech, unconventional threats, the Bush administration has put its faith in a missile defense system or "shield " to keep us all safe. There are only two problems: this may not be the sort of threat we should be focusing on and this system may not work anyway. The recent alarming news about North Korea's nuclear and missile programs has strengthened the administration's support for this extremely expensive and still unproven defense. Bradley Graham, the longtime Pentagon correspondent of The Washington Post , tells the long, strange story of how missile defense, once considered a relic of the Cold War, was revived during the 1990s to address an emerging Third World missile threat, particularly from North Korea, Iraq, and other "rogue states. " Over the past half century, no proposed weapons system has drawn more argument or dollars than national missile defense, and Graham explores the origins of the enduring debate, the costs to the nation of having failed to resolve it, and the wisdom of continuing to pursue what we used to call "Star Wars. "

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"An excellent and evenhanded account of the Bush administration's missile defense plan as well as earlier missile defense proposals."
"With nuclear-armed India and Pakistan very much in play, and Iran and Iraq engaged in their own arms race, readers who've been emptying bookstores in search of instant wisdom on low-tech terrorism and early Islam would be wise to pick up HIT TO KILL."

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Non-Fiction Warfare & Defence Weapons & Equipment Nuclear Weapons Military & Defence Strategy Politics & Government International Relations Arms Negotiation & Control History

Cast of Characters	p. IX
Chronology	p. XIII
Introduction	p. XXI
Threat
Back to the Future	p. 3
The Rogues Are Coming	p. 30
Wakeup Call	p. 52
Policy and Politics
Disconnected Timelines	p. 73
Shooting for 2005	p. 83
A Political Tipping Point	p. 101
Getting the Red Out	p. 122
Diplomacy and Technology
Agitation Abroad	p. 153
Up, Up, and Away	p. 177
Missed	p. 196
The Decoy Dilemma	p. 218
Decision
Numbers Game	p. 243
Loopholes	p. 264
Missed Again	p. 287
Cohen's Last Stand	p. 306
Once More, With Feeling	p. 341
Afterword to the Paperback Edition	p. 375
Glossary	p. 398
Notes	p. 403
Acknowledgments	p. 423
Index	p. 427
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Hit To Kill

The New Battle Over Shielding America From Missile Attach

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